New Zealand Mammals

11002-40306 Plastic pollution poses a threat to our wildlife. Animals get entangled in discarded plastic. It wraps around their beaks and muzzles, preventing them from eating. It tangles up their feet, wings, or fins. Young animals may get entrapped and as they grow, the plastic cuts into their flesh, sometimes amputating limbs, or choking and eventually killing them. Here plastic tape from a fish crate is slowly choking a young NZ Furseal (Arctocephalus forsteri), at Taiaroa Head, Otago Peninsula *